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Former Apple chief John Sculley is one of a handful of investors in a new health monitoring startup founded by a New England medical device entrepreneur who made the first diabetes monitor compatible with the iPhone, according to a report.

John Sculley, the technology executive who in the 1980s replaced Steve Jobs as CEO of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL), has invested in a small, stealthy startup making wearable health sensors, according to a report.

Based in Salem, N.H., Misfit Wearables Corp. doesn’t have a website, per se: misfitwearables.com offers only the wry greeting, “Well, hello world.” But according to Boston.com, the company is the brainchild of Sonny Vu, a medical device entrepreneur, whose last firm, blood-sugar test developer AgaMatrix, produced a diabetes monitoring device compatible with Apple’s iPhone.

The Boston Globe, which first reported Misfit Wearables’ fundraise, put the figure at $750,000, and named investors including Sculley, Vu and AgaMatrix co-founder Sridhar Iyengar. A regulatory filing by Misfit Wearables, dated Nov. 23, disclosed $200,000 raised toward a planned $700,000 financing round, and reported that the firm was previously named Aetherware Corp.

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